Kenya Sawada (澤田 拳也, Sawada Ken'ya, born January 28, 1965) is a Japanese film actor who has appeared in numerous movies, primarily in Hong Kong productions. He has occasionally been credited simply by his first name.

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Kenya Sawada
Born	Kanagawa, Japan
Nationality	Japan
Occupation	Actor

Sawada was born in Kanagawa. His first appearance was in a Japanese film Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline. Sawada's only other Japanese productions include Buyûden and Hasami as well as the 1998 Hong Kong-Japanese production B gai waak. Instead, Sawada has appeared more prominently in numerous Hong Kong productions, beginning with a minor role in the 1995 Jackie Chan film Thunderbolt. He also appeared in the 2009 Jackie Chan film Shinjuku Incident.

He played Captain Sawada in the Stephen de Souza-directed Street Fighter film, based on the fighting game series by the same name. Sawada appeared as part of a promotional deal with Capcom.[1] Like most of the cast he also did the screen-capture for the video-game rendition based on the movie, Street Fighter: The Movie. Sawada has also been involved in the Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie as a script coordinator and has a writing credit for the Street Fighter II V anime series.

Filmography

• 1990 Jipangu as Tobatsu
• 1991 Hey Oilers: The Legend of Skyline as Hanayama
• 1994 Street Fighter as Captain Sawada
• 1995 Thunderbolt as "Saw"
• 1996 Somebody Up There Likes Me as Yamada Motokazu
• 1998 B gai waak as Detective Takami
• 2000 Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi lai lee) as Inokichi Sakatsuka
• 2001 Ye long as Ryuya Tanaka
• 2003 Buyûden
• 2009 Shinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) as Nakajima
• 2010 Yip Man chin chyun as Kitano Yukio
• 2011 Dai mo seut si as Mitearai
• 2012 Hasami as Ken'ya
• 2018 Xie bu ya zheng as Nemoto Ichiro
• 2018 Huang Fei Hong: Nu hai xiong feng as Hattori Ichiro

References

External links

• Kenya Sawada official site
• 【公認】澤田謙也・専属カメラマン on Twitter
• 澤田謙也チャンネル - official Youtube channel
• Kenya Sawada at IMDb
• 澤田謙也 - Hong Kong Movie Database